#empire furniture

[jakekochina]

[arbullock]

Traditional Dining Room New York Example of a large classic medium tone wood floor and brown floor enclosed dining room design with gray walls and no fireplace

[uncleclaudius]

The base of a table with lion paws and heads. The top was probably made of wood and decayed over time. The inscription bears the name of the original owner whom archaeologists identify as Publius Servilius Casca Longus, the first of Caesar's assassins to strike him. Casca died in the Battle of Phillipi and his property was auctioned off by Octavian which is how the table ended up in a luxurious villa in Pompeii. It might also have been considered a historical curiosity at that time, just as it is now.

[vintagehomecollection]

Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, 1988

[empirearchives]

An Empire armchair. French, Napoleonic era, early 19th Century.

Source: Scala Regia

[brother-emperors]

CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS

this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.

Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson

[artschoolglasses]

Armchair made in Paris, France, 1805

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[vigilskeep]

sorry for answering that ask half asleep. the REAL thing you need to know about dragon age is that it’s not one of those fantasy worlds that’s built really deeply fixed into real history with deep knowledge. it borrows shallowly. it’s built first and foremost to set a videogame in and i love that about it, that it’s built so quickly you can still see the scaffolding went up and how they got there. they decide on a worldbuilding principle—“uhhh what if our jesus figure was [spins wheel] joan of arc?”—and they go for it because they are on a schedule. you should absolutely never be intimidated by dragon age lore it does not know more than you. all i’m doing is being able to make good guesses at what they’re borrowing from and make leaps from there

[salomedebeaurepaire]

The impressive beauty of malachite furniture made in the 18th-19th century :

[vickyvicarious]

Gavroche making himself a home in the belly of the beast...

[josefavomjaaga]

An armchair that had once belonged to Soult, sold at an auction. From the catalogue:

The furniture originally comprised at least six armchairs, two bergères, four chairs, a chest of drawers, a bed and a somno. This furniture was commissioned by Marshal Soult, probably around 1805. It is mentioned in 1810 in the bedroom of Monseigneur le Duc among the Marshal's papers, kept at the Archives Nationales, among various repair orders and invoices. [...]

Just to resume: Soult may have ordered that thing in 1805, before leaving for the Austrian campaign. He only returned home for a couple of days on his way from Berlin to Bayonne in late 1808. And in 1810, when he was fighting in Andalusia, the chair is alread listed as in need of repair. Okay, one thing is for sure: Monsieur le Maréchal had not broken it, he had barely had the time to sit down on it yet!

After living Quai Voltaire, the Marshal and his wife moved into the former Hôtel de Talleyrand-Périgord, 69 rue de l'Université, in 1803. This furniture was probably one of the very first orders placed for this new residence. During this period, the Soults frequently commissioned the cabinetmaker Cercous, who worked on rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine until 1826 [...], particularly for modifications to existing furniture and probably for certain purchases. All the furniture can still be found in the Chambre du Nonce [of the Pope] in 1852. The hotel was at this time divided into five furnished rented flats.

[thesilicontribesman]

Pieces Of A Metal Grille From An Ornate Wooden Cabinet, Roman, 1st to 2nd Century CE, Newstead, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[romanov-ramblings]

Folding-screen panels which survived from the Corner Reception-Room of Her Majesty at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo Here you have all of the tapestry panels from the folding/privacy screens which were used to decorate the Corner Reception-Room of Her Majesty. Originally, this room was decorated with three folding-screens, each of them were gilded, and were most likely executed by either the firms of N. Svirsky or F.F. Meltser & Co. (R.F. Meltser was the Court Decorator to Their Majesties). These tapestries which were fitted to various folding-screens (paravents) can be identified in the autochrome plate made during the late Summer of 1917 by war-time photographer Andrei Zeest. One tapestry panel depicts the double-headed eagle surrounded by scrollwork, filigree and ribbons. The other tapestry panels are said to be from the reign of King Louis XV of France by way of the monogram which is depicted in the center of each of the panels. All of the tapestry panels reside at GMZ Pavlovsk. Please enjoy! Also, if you re-share and/or post these photographs elsewhere PLEASE credit Gosfond and GMZ Pavlovsk accordingly! Thank-you! ________________________________________________________________

Source:

Gosfond (State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia) 

Link of courtesy:   

www.goskatalog.ru

[vintagehomecollection]

Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, 1988

[empirearchives]

Swan design on an empire style daybed

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[crabbbage]

hot weather is a crime because when i try to exercise to make myself less angry it just makes me very hot and that makes me, you guessed it, more angry